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  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events ... ’t quite know what to expect when I arrived in Cambridge on Thursday. In fact, although I was tempted to plan out exactly how I would spend every moment of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” is much more metrically flexible than ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  wanted to do during the summer? Me, I wanted to go to Europe. I had never ... I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... students all over the world to participate in internships, and they try and

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... reasons why I enjoy ROTC so much is that there are so many opportunities available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to ... I'm planning to attend. THURSDAY CPW Festival (9:30 PM - 10:00 PM

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  you all that I wish somebody told me is to branch out as much as you can ... wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  family/friends aspect and making new friends =)" Moving away to college for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same time. There was one other person from my high school coming to MIT the

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  possible to come with an almost clean mind about a subject (not much prior ... undergrad level. So if you come to MIT (or any other top undergrad school), you'll talk to your fellow students and find that their acceptances and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  for the past 10+ years, I have had no need for a car and have instead happily relied on public transportation to get around. Recruiting for MIT ... Transportation Authority (MBTA) can take me, so 9 months into the job, I had to

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and ... were spent in meetings, labs, and libraries, trying not to get smashed by ... and finally feel ready to rejoin society. Today I woke up and looked out

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  , take it in and experience it for the time that you need to. Then go on ... nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... , sigh, and shut the fridge. Two minutes later, I return to the fridge

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  year), the aim of this course is to provide the tools engineers need to ... Friday, so I thought it'd be an opportune time to discuss the classes I ... , which I am, to some extent, quite grateful for, considering I couldn't fit

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  hula-hoop, demonstrated a style of dance which you really need to see to ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to ... to read, or an essay, or a song they had written, they would be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... lot as a result, lending to my feeling that I haven't been here long. At ... this semester has gone to recovering my study skills... I fully empathize

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class ... 2010. I am going to repost it as I wrote it: raw, and unedited, and ... struggling into weird robes and wizard hats and getting ready to get in line to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why ... that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  Last year, about this time, I was typing a blog entry much like this ... 't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... 's all sorts of other stuff, but that's not what I'm here to write about. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  . too much left to do. here's to 2017. ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:   ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  many additions I have made to my vocabulary since I commenced my study at ... of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in ... past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  L@@K at the Class of 2015 profiles in greatness? a great profile? or both?

  

  to the newest data from this past year's admissions cycle. We always try to provide as much data as we can to make our process as transparent as possible. But before you get to the numbers, here are just a few of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 20, 2011